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Who is Jacques?
Jacques is a Franco-American independent scholar and activist of Quebec descent from the Upper Midwest who has made it his business to provide to the English-speaking world a detailed and thorough means of learning his heritage language. A jump start provided by his Francophone grandparents, a natural interest and propensity towards language, an extraordinary high-school French teacher, and finally an unexplainable drive and vision all paint the background of this diehard Francanadien.
After working in the world of foreign-language textbook publishing for a few years, Jacques became painfully aware of the appalling absence of any published means for English-speakers to learn Canadian French as opposed to Parisian French. Although ToutCanadien was originally intended to be a book, with the dawn of the Internet—a project of over thirty years in the making—quickly took the shape of a web site instead. Though Jacques really knew as much about assembling a web site as he did about quantum physics, he felt the time was long overdue and the need too great and too immediate for any further delay.
Twenty plus years of MS Excel and MS Word experience coupled with thousands of hours of research are what’s behind the pages and documents found here on ToutCanadien. After interviewing Jacques for this brief article, I realized this is not just a hobby for him, this is his purpose… his "raison d'etre."
A. Beaupré
Suggestions
Do you have suggestions to help further the mission of this site?
Do you have suggestions for vocabulary that you would like to see incorporated? Don't be shy! Send me an e-mail with your comments, suggestions, and corrections—especially corrections!
Although I go to great pains to make sure everything is accurate, as an editor of many years, I know something always slips through. (There's nothing worse than learning something in a foreign language that's incorrect and then having to relearn it.)
So if you happen across an error, a typo, a serious faux pas or a gross oversight and are left sleepless at night because of it, by all means, please share that discovery with me.
Merci !
jacques
Final ThoughtI fervently encourage any speaker of any tongue to be proud, imaginative, creative, and protective—like the French Canadians—of their own language and to battle the onslaught of Americanisms and their acceptance.
Accept people ♥ —not necessarily their vocabulary!
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A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
